One of the things I’ve learned from eating out of a CSA box (if you don’t know what CSA is, look here) is that there are parts of many plants which are edible and useful, but which we never see because they will not stand up to the long trip to the packers and to [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Roots and leaves
Posted in Peasant Food At Home on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ha! I’m Catching up to Gina, the Turbo Blogger
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Gina, I love the new look. Doesn’t look much like suburbia, but maybe that’s the point. Especially according to Chesterton, I guess! So, something has been on my mind as of late. I keep asking myself this question- how did we get here? or, what happened? Here’s an example. The food we eat. I sit [...]
A Cockney Regards the Country
Posted in Peasanthood Reflections on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Evert man, though he were born in the very belfry of Bow and spent his infancy climbing among chimneys, has waiting for him somewhere a country house which he has never seen; but which was built for him in the very shape of his soul. It stands patiently waiting to be found, knee-deep in orchards [...]
Szegedy
Posted in Peasant Food At Home on October 13, 2007 | 4 Comments »
One of my husband’s Slovakian family staples is szegedy goulash, a creamy kraut goulash made with smoked meats. Someday maybe I’ll post a recipe for that, when I’ve got the family cred to make a decent one. But I found that you can make a good, quick side dish using similar flavors. [...]
Soap berries
Posted in Natural Cleaning on October 11, 2007 | 7 Comments »
One of these days, my husband is going to decide I’m turning into a hippie (I already get “looks”). But some things just make so much sense, you wonder why we do things any other way.
Who knew that soap grew on trees, but for thousands of years people in Asia have harvested the fruit of [...]
Transilvania
Posted in Bay Area, Peasant Food Out & About on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those in the area, I heartily recommend family-run Transilvania Restaurant in Los Gatos for Romanian and other Eastern European home-cooked flavor and warm atmosphere.
The hostess admitted they struggle to get customers, something I guess could be owing to the chi-chi’ness of the area. It would probably do better with bluer collars on its neighbors.
As it is, [...]
The Alehouse
Posted in Neighborliness, Peasant Drink, Peasanthood Reflections on October 2, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been doing some reading and listening (a CD course) on Tudor history and they mention that after the Reformation banned a lot of public religious gatherings such as wakes and holy feasts, and disbanded the laymen religious guilds that supported various church functions, the alehouse took on more importance as a locus for social [...]
